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Mostly Louisville, Kentucky and Philadelphia: Gross, Louisa Elizabeth, 1853-1858. 12” x 9”. String-gathered, thin paper album. Pp. [70] with 192 letters, clippings, calling cards, pressed flowers and other items of ephemera adhesive mounted and laid in and the last 50 pages are blank. Good: first two quires detached; moderate edge..... More
Philadelphia: Osbourn's Music Saloon, [1840? ]. 13½” x 10 3/8”. Disbound. Pp. [3]. Very good: disbound, lightly toned, penciled annotations throughout. This is a rare piece of sheet music from an exceptionally important African American composer and bandleader, Francis Johnson. According to Eileen Southern in The Music of..... More
Phila., Pa: Ebon Incorporated, 1970. 11” x 8½”. Stapled wrappers. pp. 32. Very good plus with light wear. This issue of Pride may be one of its last, as OCLC locates nothing later. It holds an article on Philadelphia's Black Political Forum, another on the growing Black middle..... More